The Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office’s new hire will oversee a new department dedicated to open records matters.

A farmer in Beaver Dam is being accused of defrauding a crop insurance company.

A white Wisconsin police officer won't face criminal charges for fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man who witnesses say was acting erratically and had assaulted two people, a prosecutor announced Tuesday.

Republicans on the Legislature's finance committee have approved creating a solicitor general's office within the state Department of Justice.

The Legislature's budget-writing committee has nixed Gov. Scott Walker's plan to rework grants earmarked to keep kids out of gangs, pay police officers and help facilities that aid sexually abused children.

The Legislature's budget-writing committee plans to give the state Justice Department more positions to handle officer-involved death investigations.

A state budget panel struck down Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to transfer the State Prosecutor’s Office from the Department of Administration to the Department of Justice.

Appointing a special prosecutor will probably get tougher for district attorneys throughout the state.

The state Department of Justice on Monday asked a federal judge to toss out Shirley Abrahamson's lawsuit demanding that she be allowed to retain her title as Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice.

A new report shows the state Department of Justice is investigating substantially more officer-involved deaths in the wake of a new law requiring outside agencies run such probes.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has charged an Oconto-based trucker with multiple counts of child enticement and sexual assault of a child.

Attorney General Eric Holder is announcing policy change to the federal government's asset forfeiture program as part of an ongoing review.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has turned over its final reports on the events that led up to a white Madison Police officer killing an unarmed biracial man to prosecutors.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to hand its final reports on what led up to a white Madison Police officer killing an unarmed biracial man to prosecutors this week.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is urging a judge to let the state's right-to-work law stand.

Wisconsin's attorney general is promising a thorough and transparent investigation into the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old by a Madison police officer.

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel wants the Legislature's budget committee to give the state Justice Department more positions in the state budget to deal with officer-involved death investigations.

Attorney General Brad Schimel has appointed a new assistant deputy attorney general for the state Department of Justice.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is opposing civil rights advocates' claims for $1.2 million in attorney fees they say they accumulated fighting the state's gay marriage ban.

A federal judge has ordered state election officials to post links to decisions striking down swaths of Wisconsin's campaign finance laws on its website.

The state Department of Justice says it doesn't have any records of the hours it spent defending Wisconsin's gay marriage ban, making the full cost of fighting the case impossible to determine.

A former employee of Shell Pipeline Co. pleaded guilty Wednesday to safety violations in a jet fuel leak at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee that cost millions of dollars to clean up.

The state Department of Justice is recommending police don't submit evidence from sexual assault exams to the state crime lab unless victims have consented to cooperate with investigators.

A newspaper is reporting that a former state Division of Criminal Investigation supervisor has acknowledged that he built and sold guns without a federal firearms license.

The state Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against two Oregon-based publishing groups alleging they ran a subscription scam targeting the elderly.

A former gas station owner has been ordered to pay $10,885.70 in forfeitures, court costs and attorneys' fees for a judgment filed against him last week over soil contamination.

The state Department of Justice has hired nearly twenty more workers and begun a pricey renovation of its Madison crime lab so that it will be able to handle tens of thousands of additional DNA samples when new collection requirements take effect next year.

More than three-quarters of American Indian tribes that have the authority to develop sex-offender registries are well on their way to meeting the legal requirements meant to keep convicted criminals from hiding out on tribal lands, a new report shows.

All but broken by her son's violent and unexplained seizures, by so many panicked trips from the crib to the emergency room, Jeffrey McCord's mom thought her desperate search for both answers and help was finally over. It wasn't.

Oneida County prosecutors have decided to educate, but not criminally charge Rhinelander students who shared explicit photos electronically.